Elapsed-time recorder.



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`ELMSID TIMEv RECORDER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES WARES BRYCE, OF BLOOMFIELD, NEW' JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO INTERNATIONAL TIME RECORDING COMPANY OF NEW YORK., OF ENDICOTT, NEW YOBJLVA CORPO- RATION OFl NEW YORK.

ELAPS'ED-TIME RECORDER.

To all lwhom it may concern Be it known v,that I, JAMES WAREs Barca, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bloomfield, in thev county of Essex' and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Elapsed- Time Recorders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to elapsed time vrecorders.

It has for its object to. provide an elapsed time recorder capable of being operated manually by workmen; and such a recorder simple in construction and easily operated; also, one that, along with the record of elapsed time, will also give a record of' the true time of each operation 'for purposes, among other things, of verification.

In the drawings accompanying this s ecification and forming4 part hereof, I have shownlmy invention in its preferred form and will now proceed to describe such' embodiment of my invention. C

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation `of an elapsed time recorder` embodying my invention Fig. 2 is' a hori- ,zontal section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 10 showing the mechanism'in .side elevation; igs. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 arevertical sections on the lines 4 4, 5,-5, '6-6, 7-7 and 8- 8 of Fig. 10; Fig. 8'shows the mech-A anism in side elevation' looked at in'. the

- opposite direction of the section of Fig.- 3

' 1 `a. single` elapsed time mechanism; Fig. 17 is on line 8-8 of Fig. 1Q; Fig. 9 is aplan' view of the mechanism with certain parts omitted; Fi 10 and 11. are. horizontal sections on t e lines 10-'10 and 11 11 of- Fig. 4; Fig.- 12 is a front view of the lower portion ofthe mechanism looking in the direction 'of the arrows and taken on the line 12-12 of Fig. 10'; Fig. 13 is a rear view of the lower portion of the mecha.- nism looking in the direction' of the arrows and taken on line 13-13 ofv Fig. 10 and with certain parts broken away; Fig. 14,. is a de tail vertical section of v the elapsed timemechanism; Fig. 15 is la"detail'front' view of the dierentlal gears; Fig. 16 is a diagram showing the circuits for running a'diagram showing the circuits for running a number of such meehanisms;fFig. 18 isa top view of a contact device; Figs. 19, 20

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 30, 1916.

Application led Hatch 29, 1913. Serial No. 757,489.

and 21 are views of the recording card preferably employed; Fig. 19 is a. view after the first or in operation, Fig. 20 a View after the second or out operation, andl Fig. 21 a view of one end of the reverse side of the recording card.

Before proceeding Vto describe the vari` ous parts of the machine i'n detail, I. will first briefly point out some of themore prominentparts of the mechanism, and will describe briefly what the workman does in -operating the machine on both the in and out operations, and what is accomplished at each operation.'

The casing 1 of the machine is provided with a clock movement 8 in its u per part (Fig. 1 In the lower part of the case is a roun ed top platev 7 which contains an.'

opening 9 through which are vvisible 'the time of day wheels 18, 24 and`26, repre-- inrv time Vand levers 4 for the fout time.

VIt is also vprovided near its .lower edge with 'with 'two banks of levers, levers 3 for the f a card receiver2, the slot of which contains j' f A two divisions, ydivision 213 for the- "in voperation and slot 212 forthe out operation. vThe recording cardl used is illustrated in 19,l 20 and 21, and is provided in the usual way with 'vertical and horizontal colunms, half of the verticalv co1- umns being devoted .to the morning and the other half to the afternoon.I Each half of fthe card has a vertical column for the in time, two vertical columns for the out time, and a vertical column for the elapsed A time. different days of the `week, each day having two horizontal columns opposite it. 'The card receiver 2 is adjustable horizontally The horizontal columns are forv thev so as to occupy any one of. four positions,

and itis manually moved bythe Aworkman to anyone `of these positions by means of a lever -5 projecting through the lower part 'of the casing j(Flg. 1). In the'position of the lever 5 in Fig. 1 the card receiverr2 is at extreme right-hand position, which' I represents Yjthe position for `an in4 operatlon in the morning. A movement of lever 5 to the ,lefthand position brings it into position for the fin operation for the the card. This is automatically movable `ing line.

upward once each day, controlled by the clock movement for bringing' the proper horizontal space, representin the approv priate day of the week, opposite the print- Four sets of recording wheels are provided (Fig. 10), the left-hand ones 100, 101, 102 for the in wheels representing minutes, tens of minutes and hours, respectively, ou wheels 125, 126 and .127; time of day wheels 55, 54 and 53; and elapsed time type wheels 276, 277 and 278. The time of day wheels are arranged half of'a daily space above the other three sets of wheels, so that the printing of the time ofday takes place upon the upper horizontal column opposite each day of the week, and the printing from the other three sets of wheels takes place upon the card at the lower of the two horizontal columns opposite each day of v the week l(see Fig. 20).

At the right-hand of casing. 1 is the operating handle 6 (Fig. 1). v

. chine, is as'follows: In the in operation,

'- which may either be when -the.workman en,-

ters. for the morning o r afternoon, or at the beglnning of a job, he placeshisrcard 10.in

' the card receiver. .If it is an in` operation, he places it in the in division of the card 'receiver with thetop down and itsface toward the machine. He then sets the lever 5 to its proper horizontal. position. If itis or an.v in operatlon inthe morning, he

' places the lever 5 atthe..extreme rightfhand d le 6, This prints the in time-inthe in morning column lin thejupper horizontal Space .opposite the appropriateday. In the example shown, this time is' represented at.

7.20 'in Ythe in columnofthejjmorning for Thursday, and inthe upper horizontalspace opposite that day, asfshown at111,'\Fig.'f20..

vision'2`12 ofthe card Areceiver- 2. In 4the ex-L ample s hown,. t he`time beingf. 8.42 a. m.,` 'he puts the card -in the out 'slotinthe sa-me manner as when-performingthe in opera- I '-tion. He then setsthe' three in levers 3 at 'f three halfdlesv11'1,v114'and 71'15u'ntil Athey are '#*inigahelidutiinie 'which' he asrtains j by loo v:through `thepenin'g 9-5at theindi'- eating wheels 18, 24 `and-26,!-by.movingthe handles-134, S141 and 142 'opposite the num-f particularly 9. and 10.-

true time. mounted' loosely en shaft 16 secured 1n the `.Iside frames v35;.36 oftheframework (Fig.

bers 2, 4 and 8, respectively, on the series of figures on plate 150. The setting of the respective levers 3 and 4 has moved the elapsed time type wheels to a position representing the elapsed time between the-in time and the out time, levers 4 moving these elapsed time type wheels in one direction a distance representing the time of the out operation, 8.42, and the movement of the" in levers 3 moving the elapsed time type wheels in the reverse or subtracting direction, a distance represented by, 7 ,20, the resultant between the two movements giving the elapsed time between them, namely,

1.22, and bringing type representing the latt ter number upon the printing line. The workman then Vpulls handle 6. This operates the mechanism of the machine and causes to be printed upon the card numbers representing the type then standing. upon the printing line, namely, the time of the in operation, 7.20,'the time of the out operation, 8.42, and the elapsed time,1.2`2,

to be printed upon the card at 12, 13 and= 15,'

respectively, in the lower horizontal column Y. opposite Thursday, and also causes8.42, the The operation by a workman, of thema-A thus printed contains the iny and out 'time printed inthe upper horizontal-column,

and the Same time also to be printed in the elapsed time. This double-printing of the in and out time constitutes a verifica; tion of the accuracy of the operation by the workman. 'Any mistake by him can be deL tected by a glance at the card. v

If the operations take place in the afternoon, precisely the same course is followed,

' except `that the workman moveslev'er 5to' -the left as Aindicated in Fig. 1, instead of to the' original position, as described above.

lI will` now proceed to describe indetail thel different parts of the machine andthe' "mode of operation. The ing time' 'wheels` and the time? of day'cam mclwm'smf-The'se aresmore The indiating. whels revising through illustrated'iin Figsl, 5; 6, 8,'.

vlower horizontal column, together with thelwindow 9 `andare for the ,purpose, more particularly, of indicating `the true time to 'the workmanto' enable him to. properlyg-Z'o operate the out levers in accordance with These indicating wheels are 9). v` Three of them are'rsh'own.; The minute .That .shown consists` of an 'electrically'open ated device consisting of magnets 42 and 44 and their connecting parts (Fig. 8), controlled in their operation bythe clock movement 8. This mechanism will now be described.

Mounted integral with minute indicating wheel 18 is a minute time of day cam 28, a minute ratchet 17 and a Wiper disk 39. Similarly mounted with the tens of minutes indicating wheel 24 are tens of minutes time of day cam 37 (Fig. 9), ratchet 25 and wiper disk 40. Similarly, the hour indicating wheel 26 is provided with cam 38, and ratchet 27.

The indicating wheels and time of day cams are fed forward intermittently by the impulse device consisting of magnets 42 and 44. 42 is carried by arm 47 pivoted to rock shaft 41 (Fig. 8). This magnet is free to swing on shaft 41. .44' is a stationary magnet mounted on plate 48 forming part of the framework.

43 is an adjustable stop on plate 48 to prevent magnet 42 from swinging beyond a predetermined point.

Rock shaft 41 is -journaled in side frames 35, and on its inner end is mounted an arm 45 which coacts with a pin 49 on arm 46, the latter loosely pivoted on shaft 16. Lever 46 has an extending arm 46A which engages an extension of pawl shaft 19, the latter securely fastened in the pawl frames 21, 21. The pawl frames consist ofpside plates 21, 21 loosely pivoted on shaft 16, having a cross plate 50 securing the side plates together. Pawl shaft 19 carries awls 20, 20, one for each of the ratchets 1 25 and 27. Each pawl 20 is loosely mounted on shaft 19 and has an extension 19A, and each pawl is normally held in engagement with its corre- `spending ratchet wheel by means of a spring 19B secured to the end of 19'* ano connected with cross plate 50 (Fig. 5). Mounted on rod 22 are stop pawls 23, 23, one for each of the said three ratchets, each pawl normally held in engagement with its ratchet by means of a spring 34.

29 is a cross bar to act as a stop or limit to the upward swinging movement of side plates 21 and cross plate 50. 'i

Whenever the electromagnets 44 and 42 are energized, the arm 47 is moved through an arc until 1t strikes stop 43. In the machine shown the magnets are energized and denergized every minute, as will be explained later on. When arm 47 is moved, rock shaft 41 moves arm 45 which, in turn, acts on pin 49 of lever 46, rocking pawl frames 21, 21 upward, carrying with them feeding pawls 20, 20, and causing any one of these pawls, if in engagement with its corresponding ratchet, to feed the ratchet and the corresponding indicating wheel and time of day cam one point.

Pawl 20 of the minute ratchet wheel 17 is always in engagement with that wheel,

being held there by spring 19B, and every energization of magnets 42, 44, which would occur once every minute, feeds forward the ratchetl wheel and its corresponding indicating wheel and cam. Pawls 20 of the tens of mlnutes and of the hour indicating wheels and cams are, on the contrary, normally held out of engagement with their respective ratchets 25, 27, but at the end of a complete revolution of the ratchet wheel, cam and indicating wheel of the next lower denomination, each one of these pawls is momentarily let into engagement with its ratchet wheel, and at the Succeeding energization of magnets 42, 44, feeds forward its indicating wheel and cam one point, when it is again removed from engagement with .its ratchet. For this purpose each of the indicating wheels, except the highest, has a wiper disk fast with it, 39 for the minute wheel and 40 for the tens of minutes. Each of these disks is provided with a notch, as 'shown in dotted lines at 39^ (Fig. 5). Pawl 20 of the next higher denomination is provided with a finger fast to its sleeve, having a projection extending sidewise and resting upon the wiper disk of the next lower denomination. 52 is the finger of pawl 2O of the hour ratchet wheel resting upon the minute wiper disk 4G, and 51 is the corresponding finger of the pawl 20 of the tens of minutes ratchet wheel, and it rests against the minute wiper disk 39. By these means each wheel carries one to the wheel of next higher denomination at each revolution of the former.

By the above means the indicating time wheels and the time of day cams always indica-te by their position the true time.

Connections between the time of day cams and the time of day recofdz'ng type wheels.- These are s ecially illustrated in Figs. 4, 5, 9 and 10. il'here are three time of day recording type wheels shown. Minute wheel 55, tens of minutes wheel 54, and hour wheel 53 (Fig. 10). These type wheels stand normally at zero; Athat is, with zero on the printing line. At each operation of the machine by handle 6 these type wheels are rotated a distance corresponding with the then conditions of the tlming cams 28, 37 and 38, respectively, previously described as connected with the indicating wheels 18, 24 and 26, respectively. As previously described, these timing cams are continuouslyrotated by means of the magnets 42 and 44 controlled by the clock movement 8, and their condition at any time represents the true time in minutes, tens of minutes and hours. The operation of handle 6 and the connecting mechanism between these timing cams and the time of day recording type wheels causes each type wheel to be moved a distance correspondlng' to the then condition of the corresponding time of day cam,

and that type is brought upon the printingl will describe that connecting the minute cam 28 with the minute time of day type wheel 55, as shown in Fig. 5. In the position of the parts represented in Fig. 5, cam 28,is shown as standing at the figure 2 representing two minutes.

30 is a bell crank lever loosely pivoted on stationary shaft 31 secured to the side frames of the machine and carrying at its end a roller 56 normally bearing upon the surface of cam 28, through spring'33 secured to the framework at 57. It will be understood that there is, of course, a corresponding lever similarly mounted on shaft 31 for each cam. `Lever 30 is provided at its lower end with gear teeth 32 meshing with gea!` teeth 58 on sector 60 loosely mounted on shaft 59 secured in the framework. Sector 60 has a series of ratchet teeth 70 at its lower end. The position of sector ratchet 60 will, of course, at any time be dependent upon the position of timing cam 28. Sector 60 is rotated in the direction of the hands of the clock at each operation of the machine by handle 6 by mechanism having always the same extent of movement or stroke. This mechanism consists of a frame composed of two arms 61 and 62 (Figs. 5 and 10) connected by a universal bar 63 and also connected by a small rod 65 and a shaft 64 upon which are loosely mounted pawls 66, one for each sector ratchet. Pawl 67 for the tens of minutes and pawl 68 for the hour ratchet. Frames 61, 62 are mounted fast upon shaft 59. A spring 69 is provided for each pawl secured at one end to rod 55, and normally holds its pawl in engagement with the teeth 70 of the sector ratchet. Similar springs are (not shown) provided for the other pawls.

Shaft 59 is rocked at each movement of handle 6 by means of cam 71 (Fig. 4) on the main cam shaft 72. Cam 71 coacts with a roller on the end of lever 73 loosely mounted on stationary shaft 74 and carrying'at its other end gear teeth 75 meshing with sector 76 which forms an yintegral part of side arm 61. The movement of shaft 59 rocks frames 61, 62 carrying with them pawls 66, 67 and 68 and moving them to- Ward the left as viewed in Fig.5. This movement of frame 61, 62 is always of the same extent. At the extreme right-hand end of the movement the pawls strike a stop bar 77 rocking them and disengaging the pawls from the teeth 70 of the sector ratchets. In all other positions of the frame 61, 62 the springs hold the pawls in enga ement with the teeth 70. ,Y

inmediately after the commencement of the leftward movement of frame 61, 62 during the actuation of handle 6, the pawls 66, 67 and 68 engage their respective sector ratchets, and each pawl moves its corresponding sector to the left a distance corresponding with the leftward movement of the pawl. But the particular tooth 70 of the sector ratchet 60 whlch the pawl engages with will de end upon the position of the vtiming cam. n the position of the parts shown in Fig. 5, pawl 66 when released from bar 77, will engage with the second'tooth 70 of the ratchet sector 60 as timing cam 28 stands at its second position. As will be understood, it will, of course, move the sector ratchet 60 a farther distance than if the timing cam stood at a higher position. In the course of the movement of sector ratchet 60 the lower part will engage a in 78 on sector 79 loosely mounted on sha t 59, and will rotate that sector in the direction of the hands of the clock. This movement is limited by stop rod 85 which comes in contact with the nose of each pawl. With the timing cam at zero, the left-hand end of the lower part of sector 60 is just nine points distant from pin 78. Accordingly, the extent of movement of sector 79 is llkewise dependent upon the posltion ofthe timing cam.

Gear teeth 80 on sector 79 mesh with rack teeth 81 on sliding rack 82 guided on rods 86, 87 mounted in the side frames 35, 36. These rods 86 and 87 project through slots in all of the other sliding racks, it being understood that each time type Wheel has a similar sliding rack and connections. VThe slots are long enough to permit rack 82 to move upward a distance corresponding to nine units, and to do this in a straight line.

Rack 82 stands normally in its lowermost osition, and is held there by means of a ight tension spring 88 fastened to a spring anchorage 89 supported by the side frames. A series of teeth 83 cut inthe opposite side of sliding rack 82, engaging with spur ear 84 fast to the minute recording type whee 55, which latter is loosely mounted on shaft 9 0.

The extent of the upward movement of sliding rack 82 will depend upon the position of time of day cam 28, and type wheel 55 will be rotated a corresponding distance, bringing upon the printing line the type representing the minute corresponding to the position of the timing cam 28 at the operation of the machine.` In this way the time of da type wheels are set at each operation o the machine at the time of day when the machine is operated, and when the printing hammers are actuated, the time is printedupon the card inserted in the card receiver.

The tens of minutes type wheel 54 and the hour Wheel 53 are each provided with a similar pawl, secto` ratchet, gear sector,

L sliding rack and gear. The tens of minutes type wheel 54 has gear 96, sliding rack 94, gear sector 91, sector 98 and pawl 67. Those of the hour wheel 53 are gear 97, sliding rack 95, gear sector 93, sector 99 and pawl 68. y

At each of the above operations each lever 30 will be removed from its cam, keeping its roller out of contact with the cam during the entire printing operation. No matter how long this operation takes, cam 28 is free to be continuously rotated in accordance with the time, Without any interference by the other parts connecting it with the type wheel. When the printing operation is completed, the roller of lever 30 is returned to lts position against cam 28, and will then.

represent the true minute.

It will be noted that the time of day type Wheels 53, 54 and 55 are set on a lower lever than the other sets of recording type wheels, namely, the in type Wheels, the out type Wheels, and the elapsed time type Wheels. This is accomplished by having that portion. of the type wheel shaft 103 supported by side plates 306, 307 as shown in Fig. 13. The object of this arrangement is to bring the time of day type wheels opposite the proper printing space on the card, namely, the upper horizontal column opposite each day.

The in time of day type 'wheels and their connections with the in time of Zay levers-These are specially illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 7-12. There are three in time of day type wheels, 100, 101, 102, representing the minutes, tens of minutes and hours (Fig. 10). These Wheels print the in time on the second or out s operation of the machine. As shown in Fig. 20, this is printed in the lower half of the first column of the morning opposite Thun, as 7.20. These type Wheels stand normally at zero and are moved by the in levers 3. In

.the second or out operation of the machine, the Workman, among other things, moves the three ih levers 3 to the hour, tens of minutes and minutes represented at the moment of yoperation by the time indicating Wheels 18, 24 and 26, as seen through Window 9. This is done by the Workman moving handles 111, 114, 115 of the in levers '3 opposite to the number on the scale alongside of the slot of the lever corresponding to the minute, tens of minutes, and hour of the true time (see Fig. 2). This moves the in Wheels correspondingly so as to bring upon the printing line type representing the same hour, tens of minutes and minutes. Any suitable connections between the handles of the levers and the type Wheels may be employed. That shown I will novv proceed to describe.

To each of the in type Wheels is fastened a gear, 104 the gear of the minute type wheel 100, 105 the gear of the tens of minutes type Wheel 101', and 106 the gear of the hour type wheel 102. Meshing With the minute type wheel gear 104 is a vertically sliding rack 109 (Fig. 7) sliding on stationary rod 87 and having its lower end shown, but similar to detent 121 secured to' one of the out levers 4 (see Fig. 3). This detent is a spring arm fast at one end to the" lever and with its free end engaging with the notches 123 in the side of the slot of the in index plate 124 (Fig. 2). The tens of minutes in type Wheel and the hour in type Wheel have similar racks, levers, cross overs and operating levers. Those of the tens of minutes type Wheel 101 are, gear 105, rack. 119, lever 112, cross over 117, and corresponding operating in lever 114. The hour in type Wheel 102 has gear 106, rack 120, lever 113, cross over 118, and corresponding operating in lever 115. Each in lever has a detent similar to detent 121 on out lever i4 adapted to engage with the notches of the corresponding slot in plate 124.

In the illustration ,shown in the machine, a Workman, in the out operation, would move the handles of the in levers 3 as follows: handle 115 opposite the number 7 on its index, handle 114 opposite to the number 2, and handle 111 opposite zero. The corresponding type Wheels 102, 101 and 100 Would be moved by the means above described so as to stand with the type 7.20 on the printing line, and that number would be printed on the` record card as shown at 12, Fig. 20. The movement of the in levers 3 by the Workman also affects the elapsed time type Wheels, causing them to move in a subtracting direction a distance in accordance with the time at Which the in levers are set, namely, 7.20. For this reason, the cross overs 116, 117 and 118 eX- tend across the machine and connect With the mechanism operating the elapsed time type Wheels, as will be hereinafter described.

The out time tei/pc wheels and their connections with thc out levers- These are specially illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 6, 10 and 11. There are three out time of day type Wheels, 125, 126 and 127, being respectively the minute, tens of minutes and hour wheels. These type Wheels stand normally at zero and are moved by means of the out levers 4. In each out operation of the machine by a Workman he moves the three out levers 4 by means of their operating handles 134, 141 and 142 to a po 

